Making a Difference in 2024

Change the election map this year -- even before catching up in the Long Game.

The Left has won the Long Game largely by default. On the plus side, this means there are vast quantities of Low Hanging Fruit available for our consumption. On the downside, we are so far to the left of the S Curve on so many fronts that even if we gorge ourselves on the Low Hanging Fruit, the fruits of our many small victories will be small in the near term.

However, over time, with enough effort, those microvictories will add up. And getting enough effort over that time is feasible: the Yellow Pill is addictive. It's more fun to be an incremental alpha than a premature grumpy old faerte.

But the premature grumpy old faertes have a point: we might not have the time to play Long Game catch up. This was a common sentiment in the comments when I guest posted at the Tree of Woe. For their sake, and for any who are willing to to real work, I present a strategy for making a difference this year. But I warn you, this involves horrifying work: knocking on doors, asking for money, putting on a suit, and representing other people.

Waiting for the country to break up and then be overrun produces less dread -- for those with a short time horizon. Better to enjoy the last couple years of our decaying civilization and then be doomed than to run for office...as a RINO.

That's right, we have a RINO shortage.

This may be a hard concept to grok given that there are local surpluses of RINOs in conservative states like Utah and Kentucky. In a few places we need to primary some RINOs.

But there are liberal states and districts as well. To run a principled conservative or MAGA Republican is to basically let the Democrat candidate run uncontested. Might as well run a Rothbard quoting Libertarian for all the good that it does.

And when the local Democratic Party realizes that they don't have to worry about the general election, they start feeling the Bern and eating the bugs -- if you're lucky. If you're not, the Pit of Horror opens up and out come the puritanical satanists, equitarians, crime promoters, child choppers, and general practitioners of bitchcraft. Worse yet, these assorted horrors can get seniority in Congress, and get to be super delegates at the Democratic Convention.

We need RINOs. Heroic RINOs.

Be a Better RINO

Not the RINOs that you are currently thinking of now. I'm not asking anyone to be a low energy latte sipping, lavender RINO.

These may be useful in the frosty liberal whitetopias of New England, but such districts are becoming scarce, and wearing the perfectly tailored suit doesn't provide the super powers it used to.

And I'm not calling for head-in-hole, just-give-me-my-tax-breaks-and-let-the-country burn, country club RINOs either.

Such RINOs are good for raising money and getting votes in wealthy suburbs, but they don't know how to work with the truck drivers, farmers, carpenters, and conspiracy theorists brought into the Republican Party by decades of talk radio and the more recent rise of Donald Trump.

No, I don't want to you to be as fake and ghey as the stereotypical RINOs above. I'm calling for getting real, like The Black RINO!

He's not cutting welfare. And he isn't going to reverse the Civil Rights Act. But he's serious about crime. After all, the Hood has an awful lot of crime victims. He doesn't like all that tranny worship either, and he's cool with major portions of the MAGA agenda. Blacks in the Hood stand to benefit as much or more than working class Whites should we end Subsidized Outsourcing and get back to enforcing the National Picket Line. He also likes simplifying the tax code and small business regulations, so more of his homies can go into business for themselves and avoid working for The Man.

Here at Rules for Reactionaries, I've been building up a kit of useful tools for The Black RINO to put in his utility belt. Rule 5 -- Teach More Practical Arts -- has all sorts of ideas for breaking the school-to-prison pipeline. And even Rule 3 -- Teach More History -- is somewhat useful for the descendants of the Previously Persecuted. It's not just about dialing down the Hate Whitey rhetoric that Team D so loves. It's also about providing a success mindset for those who don't have White Privilege. And I have more tools coming up, including means to reduce the Black prison population while cutting crime.

There is one problem: I doubt I that many of you reading this are Black. But you might be able to recruit someone suitable who is.

But if I understand the demographics of who reads this site correctly, many of you could be Green RINOs.

The Left Coast, most college towns, and this country's technology centers are big on going Green. This is logical: when the larder and the bank account are reasonably full, clean air, organic food, and communing with nature rise to the top of the Hierarchy of Marginal Happiness. In such districts it's go Green or go extinct -- politically.

If the Republican Party writes off such districts, then it's Democrat vs. Green Party, and as we know, the Green Party is really the Watermelon Party: Green on the outside, but [commie] Red on the inside. The combination pushes the Democrats ever farther to the Left. And since communism and environmentalism really don't mix, the result is rotten watermelons -- which stink nearly as bad as the sidewalks of San Francisco.

And thus the opportunities for Green RINOs are enormous. And if you read and follow Rule 11 -- including the parts yet to come -- you can become a Super Green RINO!

I would be posting another Rule 11 installment right now, save for one thing: filing deadlines loom. And if you haven't been active in your local Republican Party, any attempt to be a candidate or recruit a candidate is going to seem a bit presumptuous this late in the game. But if Team R is fully defeated in your district, run anyway. Weak parties are easy to take over. Indeed, in some parts of the country, your best strategy might to round up a bunch of ringers to take over the local Green Party and run as a Green Party candidate instead of as a Green RINO. Bwahahaha!

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Conclusion

Affecting elections this year is theoretically possible, but the amount of work is huge and onerous. Stocking up on guns and nonperishable food is cheaper and more pleasant -- in the short run. But actually needing to use those guns to defend your food stockpile is another matter entirely.

America needs better RINOs. Now. Take some Vitajex to get out of Low Energy Grump mode and get to it!